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Brentwood, NY
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Long Island Resident Charged In Mortgage Fraud Scheme
A Long Island resident was among five real estate professionals facing charges for their roles in a scheme to defraud prominent mortgage lenders. An indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn federal court charging Iskyo Aronov, Michael Konstantinovskiy, Tomer Dafna, Avraham Tarshish and Michael Herskowitz with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and related wire fraud counts. Among those allegedly defrauded include the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, and other borrowers. Konstantinovskiy, Dafna, Tarshish, and Herskowitz were arreste…
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Park Ridge Con Man Admits Cooking Up $300,000 Mortgage Scam With Upper Saddle River Son
A Park Ridge con man already facing state prison time admitted in federal court on Wednesday that he and his son defrauded mortgage lenders out of more than $300,000, using most of the money to buy high-end luxury vehicles. George Bussanich Sr., 60, cut a deal with the government through which he pleaded guilty to bank fraud conspiracy and tax evasion in exchange for consideration at his Sept. 25 sentencing in U.S. District Court in Newark. His son George Bussanich Jr., 39, of Upper Saddle River, is scheduled to be sentenced the same day for his October 2017 guilty plea to tax evasion. For…
Massapequa, NY
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Long Island Man Sentenced For Swindling 32 Homeowners Out Of More Than $600K
A Long Island man will spend time behind bars after pleading guilty to stealing more than $600,000 from 32 homeowners as part of a mortgage modification scheme. Dix Hills resident Mark Savransky, 59, has been sentenced to a term of three to six years in prison for scamming the homeowners out of a total of $601,546.92, which he must also pay in restitution. Savransky pleaded guilty in October last year to two counts of second-degree grand larceny, felonies, and scheme to defraud, a misdemeanor. According to Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas, Savransky operated a mortgage modi…
Mount Pleasant, NY
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Area Judge Pleads Guilty To False Statement, Obstructing FBI Agents
A 59-year-old New City woman and former judge pleaded guilty on Thursday, April 26 for making false statements in connection with a loan application to buy a home in the Town of Monroe in Orange County. Federal prosecutors said that Lurlyn A. Winchester, a former Justice for the Town Court of Monroe, pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy, in federal court in White Plains,. She faces up to 30 years in federal prison and more than $1 million in fines when she is sentenced in August. Prosecutors allege that the Rockland County resident lied on her application in order to…
